Left at liberty, the Communists are
abusing the trust which the Prov. Rev. Com. has shown them. They
have been discovered attempting to send light signals to the enemy.

Because of this, the Prov. Rev. Com.
asks all Kronstadt citizens to vigilantly watch for enemies of the people,
to urgently bring to the attention of the Rev. Com. all occurrences of
signals being sent, and to restrain the guilty parties until authorities
arrive.

Traitors and spies are warned that they
will be dealt with on the spot, without any court, by the laws dictated
by the moment.

THE PROVISIONAL REVOLUTIONARY COMMITTEE

ORDER

ON THE DEFENSE OF THE NAVAL FORTRESS OF KRONSTADT

No
3 (COMBAT)

March 11th, 1921, Fortress of Kronstadt

§ 1

I order that the adversary's airplanes
not be fired upon from small arms and machine guns, either by individuals
or crews. Such fire, being completely without purpose, cannot cause
damage to the airplanes and is a useless waste of bullets.

OSOSOV, for the President of the Prov. Rev. Com.
SOLOVIANOV, Head of the Defense of the Kronstadt Fortress

SUMMARY OF OPERATIONS

from 24:00, March 11th until 12:00, March 12th

There was calm until 10 A.M.

From 10 A.M. on there were occasional
artillery exchanges and raids by the adversary's airplanes, which threw
out several bombs.

The bombs caused no damage in the town.

from 12:00 through 24:00, March 12th

Around 1 P.M., raids by the adversary's
airplanes began, with bombs being thrown on the town. There was
artillery fire by the adversary until 7 P.M., to which the artillery of
the fortress responded energetically.

PETRICHENKO, President of the Military Revolutionary Committee
SOLOVIANOV, Head of the Defense

YOU WON'T INTIMIDATE THEM!

The Bolsheviks continue to throw bombs
from airplanes. They think that they will intimidate the populace.
Their only means of action is lead.

They have nothing else left. They
are washed out. The blood of peaceful citizens, women and even children
they obviously don't value at all.

All the citizens of Kronstadt have been
welded into a single mass by their anger. Just one feeling burns
in their souls, a feeling of hate for the oppressor Communists.
The residents of the town do not face current events passively, as the
Bolshevik newspapers slander, but with a great enthusiasm. All citizens
divide the burden of the struggle which which has been raised by the garrison
and workers of the rebellious town. They all await a new, bright
life, free from any yoke.

You can't intimidate them with airplanes.

The innocent victims lie on the heads
of the Communists. But the populace remains calm, and doesn't give
in to outbursts of purposeless anger against the insane oppressors.
The populace bears itself heroically and selflessly.

Airplanes won't intimidate them!

IT IS NECESSARY TO BREAK AWAY

The Communist Party has swelled greatly
in numbers since it took power in its own hands, but it was lost a great
deal in quality because of this. It sucked in a huge mass of people
who entered it with the goal of receiving a cushy job. Self-seekers
among the hangers-on finally brought us to the point where the ideological
element in the party, which sincerely wanted to serve the laborers, became
powerless to do anything. Besides that, during these 3 years the
party leaders have become separated from the working masses, and long
ago brought corruption and ideological confusion into the party.

The Tenth Party Congress, which was
to have gathered in March, would undoubtably have recognized these differences
of belief. The party might have split if its upper reaches wouldn't
change their policies, which have led to complete contradiction with the
entire worker and peasant masses. But events don't wait. The
long muffled dissatisfaction of the masses has burst out, and has taken
the character of a people's movement.

Besides that, in order to come to deal
with with the masses' demands for new elections to the Soviets, which
do not now express the will of the laborers, and about changing the policy
toward the peasantry, the Communist bureaucrats decided to put the movement
down with martial law and with executions of workers and peasants.
Such a situation among the upper reaches of the party, which have placed
in motion every possible repression and lie to hold on to power, cannot
be made right by a lone person devoted to the ideal of Communism.
Every honest Communist must break away from those who cannot find any
other language for the workers and peasants than the language of cannons
and bombs.

And how should this breaking away be
done? Some comrades have done this by leaving the party completely,
and becoming non-party comrades. But there are those who are tied
strongly to the idea of the Communist Revolution, and who have drawn the
Marxist worldview deeply into themselves. Such comrades, maintaining
their party membership, must loudly declare that they will not take moral
responsibility for that which the upper reaches of the party have done
against the workers and peasants. The must honestly help in making
right those deficiencies with which our Soviet Russia is so rich.
Comrade Palanov has already acted in this way. I add my voice to
his. May other comrade Communists also speak out like this.

M. KOPILOVICH, candidate member of the R.C.P.

TO THE WORKERS OF THE WORLD!

The following broadcast was sent by
the Prov. Rev. Com.:

Kronstadt.

To all... to all... to all...

to the Workers of the world!

The airborn Communist predators have
begun to envy Wilhelm's laurels. They hover over Kronstadt like
kestrels, throwing bombs and killing the peaceful populace, our wives
and children. But this will not stop us from fighting to the end
for the holy interests of the laboring masses. May the workers of
the world know that we are struggling for the true power of the laboring
people, while bloody Trotsky and well fed Zinoviev with their champions
are struggling for the power of the Communist oppressor Party.

May the workers of the world know that
these criminals are hiding the truth from the people, and letting out
the slanderous lie that tsarist generals lead us. It has been twelve
days now since this handful of true hero proletarians, these workers,
sailors and soldiers, isolated from the whole world, took on themselves
the whole weight of the blow struck by the Communist Party butchers.
But we are cheerful. We will bring the cause which we have begun
to a victorious end, or die with the cry, "Long live freely elected Soviets."

May the workers of the world know this.

Comrades, we need your moral support.
Protest against the oppressor commissarocrats. Remember the innocent
victims of Louvain
[Belgium] and Reims [France]. Then Imperialism was defending
its power over the people, and now that same power over the people is
being defended by the Communist Party, which has raised its hand against
revolutionary Kronstadt!

We send damnation to the butchers!

With comradely greetings,"

THE PROVISIONAL REVOLUTIONARY COMMITTEE

THE TRAGEDY OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY

I, an old seaman of the 1904 recruitment,
having suffered all the bitter parts of life and currently an insignificant
workingman for the good of the laborers, pass through the current moment
with deep sorrow in my heart. For three years, the suffering worker,
peasant and every kind of honest toiler believed in a bright future, believed
in the leaders of the Communist Party who stand at the front.

But a split is occurring in the heights
of the party, and it is echoing everywhere. The party has occupied
itself with politics at the time when the end of the Civil War demands
that it direct its work only into the channel of economic life, the channel
of reconstructing the economy of the destroyed country.

In the localities, outrages have been
committed by the proteges of the commissars and of other responsible workers.
Complaints have been brought from far and wide against individual members
of the party. The grumbling got stronger, and finally the suffering
worker and peasant would not put up with it and revolted openly.
The ruling party did not justify the faith of the masses, and Kronstadt
broke away first.

Away with you, torture chambers and
tortures! Enough of spilled blood; honest citizens don't want it!
These are practices of butchers from the tsarist time of the past.
In a free country they must not be. The peasant will understand
that it is necessary to give the city bread even without commissars, and
the worker in turn will strive to give the peasant everything necessary
from his own production. The power which the laboring class has
won for itself won't be given away to anyone. The laboring class
will make it stronger, and direct it into a new channel of life.

Soviet power must be the expression
of the will of all the laboring masses, without the rulership of any kind
of political party. A great cause is being carried out, and Kronstadt
has made the start, as vanguard of the Revolution. It let all the
Republic understand that it is impossible to continue like this.
There are no stinking plots against Soviet power here. All the laboring
masses of Kronstadt see this. There are no White Guards at the head
of the movement here, but only selfless citizens who have taken on their
own shoulders the responsibility of carrying the cause to the end, with
the slogan, "Victory or Death."

No one wanted blood, and all the rumors
let out by the Communists that this is an open uprising against Soviet
power aren't founded on anything. Life goes on normally. The
call to bloodletting is being made by the upper reaches of the party in
the person of Trotsky.

Blood has been spilled.

For what? For the dominion of
the party?! No, enough of politics and blood. Leaders of the
Communist Party, realize what you are doing! If you haven't come
to an understanding among yourselves, fight however you want, but leave
us in peace. We, the lowly, don't want that. We want to build
our lives, to set right the country's destroyed economy so that the children
won't be able to say of their fathers that they didn't do anything for
the good of the younger generation.

Let us build our lives!

And you must give up your position to
the laboring people without any bloodletting. Give your place at
the wheel of government to the laborers. I openly declare, as a
rank and file Communist, that our children must not perish under bombs
thrown from airplanes by Trotsky's order.

Having respect for the idea of Communism,
like every other pure idea, I as a rank and file member of the party,
given to the service of the entire laboring class since a young age, openly
say, "let all laborers breathe free."

There must not be any more of the dominion
of any kind of party. Our Soviets must be the expressors of the
will not of parties, but of the electors. It is necessary to create
the will of the laboring masses. They seek truth, freedom and a
better life, without oppression, torture chambers, executions and tortures.

I remain in spirit with the pure idea
of Communism, since every pure idea is faith in a better future, and no
on has the power to kill it. At the same time I declare that after
three years in the party, I have seen the entire unfairness of the upper
reaches of the party, which have contracted the disease of bureaucratism
and become separated from the masses. Therefore, I take the stamp
of party membership from myself, and in general do not intend to enter
any other party from this time on. I worked, and want to continue
to freely and honestly work, for the good of all the laborers of Soviet
Russia, like every honest citizen.

KURASHEV, Director of the Town Finance Department,
former worker in the Naval Artillery Laboratory

NEWS FROM PETROGRAD

At the Tenth Congress of the R.C.P.,
now taking place in Moscow, the Control Commission made a report on its
activity. Of 200 cases investigated by the Commission, 50 turned
out to be of criminal character. The cases involved occurred due
to the workers responsible using their position for personal comfort.
The Commission raised the question before the Central Committee of the
necessity of carrying out the most merciless struggle with the unbelievable
excesses which responsible figures are allowing themselves.

What a great group, there's nothing
to say!

The following order was issued by the
Commander of the Baltic Fleet in connection with presently occurring events.

"A strict revolutionary order is to
be enforced on all ships, and in all units and institutions of Baltflot.
A decisive struggle is to be carried out against any and all instances
of violating order and discipline. No kind of assembly is to take
place in ships, units and institutions. Access by outside persons
to ships, units and institutions without permission of the commissar is
categorically forbidden."

"All commanders and commissars are ordered
to be at their places. The Revolutionary Tribunal of Baltflot
is ordered to punish those guilty of violating this order with all the
severity of wartime law."

THEY ARE TAKING AWAY RUSSIAN GOLD

In relation to the arrest of Russian
gold located on the steamship Ankon, the news agency Gavas
reports that 160,000 rubles in gold were hidden in the cabin of a member
of the Russian trade mission. After the arrest, the gold was handed
over to the care of an Italian bank.

GREAT THANKS

It is impossible to find the words to
suitably thank those kind Kronstadters who, despite the meaningless ration
received both earlier and now, are tearing the last crumbs from themselves
every day and bringing us at the forward outposts a dinner of soup and
even bread. There have even been occurrences when bread received
by coupons in the stores was given to soldiers on their way to the forts,
at the same time blessing them, making the cross and giving them the very
best wishes.

We bless the kind Kronstadters, and
believe that the great holy cause will be taken to its end.

You, and with you also we, must show
the laborers of Russia and the entire world that Kronstadters are able
to fight not only with the bourgeoisie but also with any and all enslavers
of the laborer's will, even if they come from the left.

Long live the power of true Soviets,
and not parties!

ANDREEV, soldier of the 560th Infantry Battalion

FRATERNAL AID

The people of Kronstadt are trying in
all ways to come to the aid of the comrade soldiers who are defending
the rights of the laboring people. Yesterday, Boris Scheglov, clerk
of the Port Transport String, gave the manager of the building of the
Prov. Rev. Com. two pairs of boots for the brother warriors.

FROM THE AGITATION CENTER OF THE PROVISIONAL REVOLUTIONARY
COMMITTEE

We, revolutionary seamen, soldiers and
workers of Kronstadt have swept the hated Communist yoke away with a comradely
blow, and have sworn to be victorious or die. There can be no compromise
with the oppressors.

We will keep our vow. The much
suffering Russian laboring people, tortured by the Cheka, starved,
carrying more than four years of cruel war, await us as deliverers, holding
out their dry and calloused hands.

We see that the Communist authorities
deal cruelly with anyone who speaks a word of sympathy toward us.
We did not only decide to struggle with our enemies with bayonets and
cannons, but also with the word. We are dedicating all our strengths
so that our word, our press, might freely uncover all the crimes of the
Communist Party and all the horrors of the torture chambers of the Cheka.
We want to uncover everything that the oppressors resorted to in trying
to seat themselves securely and safely on the throne.

But the Bolshevik authorities, the power
of sticks and bayonets, does not allow us to speak freely with our deceived
brothers. In defending ourselves, we all remember that it is our
fraternal blood, the blood of deceived toilers which is pouring, and not
that of commissars and party leaders. They are far away, separated
from the carnage they have made. On soft couches, they discuss how
to better deceive the whole laboring people, and choose which military
unit to send to certain death against Kronstadt.

In answering their cannons, we did not
abandon the matter of propaganda, and we have taken all measures so that
our press might be spread not only in Kronstadt but also among the adversary's
troops. Comrade seamen, sacrificing themselves, cross the firing
lines. So that there would be less blood spilled, and so that not
a single confused soldier would remain with the deceiver Trotsky, it is
necessary to expand agitation even more. It is necessary to increase
the the number of cadres in the army which propagandizes the idea of the
power of laboring people.

Everyone in who's heart burns a holy
hatred against the crimes committed by the Communists, come with identification
from the revolutionary troikas to the Agitation Center of the Provisional
Revolutionary Committee (House of the People). Come speak to Comrade
Perepelkin, to be enlisted in the ranks of the agitators.

We believe that our call will receive
a warm answer.

PEREPELKIN, Director of the Agitation Center of the Prov. Rev. Com.

TO YOUTH!

(Voice of the Young Proletarian)

Comrade young proletarians!

Comrade members of the Communist Youth
League, each of us well knows the situation which has formed in the Republic,
and in particular in Kronstadt. Each of us has seen and heard everything.

Comrades! After the October Revolution,
when power fell into the hands of the now bankrupt Communist Party, many
of us with our passionate youthful hearts, as is always the case with
youth, aspired to something bright and new, to something which was to
give us and our fathers and mothers a bright laboring life. We thought
that the Communist Party would bring us to that bright future, and we
strived for the party. For three years, we with our fathers and
brothers spilled our young blood for the Communist Soviets.

For three years we lived in expectation
of an improvement in our lives. But after all three years of struggle,
cold and hunger we saw that our lives were not improving but worsening.
We were convinced once and for all that the Communist Party, with all
its commissars who feast during plague, chekists and anti-profiteer
troops, would lead us to certain death.

Every aware comrade cannot and must
not blame the Communist Party, as such. They will blame those Communists
who, being in power, abused the people's faith, and who, seeing their
distress, mercilessly robbed them. The patience of the laboring
masses has been exhausted. The workers and sailors of Peter raised
the banner of revolt against the oppressors, the Communists and chekists
who have been set up by the Communist Soviets.

This uprising was put down by cadets
and Communist forces, and hidden from us. We fed only on rumors.
But these rumors, speaking of base acts by the Communist Party, which
considers itself the expression of the people's will while at the same
time executing masses of hungry and cold workers who have rebelled, were,
as we all know, confirmed by our delegation of seaman. And Kronstadt
arose.

At our giant meeting of the garrison
and workers, and afterwards at the Conference of Delegates, the banner
of uprising was lifted not by generals but by seamen, sailors and workers.
Only sailors, workers and soldiers sit in our Rev. Com.

Kronstadt will again be "Red," the Communists
write in their base and lying organs. We answer that our heroic
Kronstadt was, is and will always be Red.

With their endless lying leaflets and
articles they haven't closed but just still more opened our eyes to their
crimes.

Comrades! The writer of
these lines, although not having joined the party was and remains a Communist
by conviction. But the acts of our Communist Party: executions
of workers; murder of peaceful residents with bombs; deception of the
people with words and press, are shameful and it is time to put an end
to them!

To a unification of strengths.
We must all, from the smallest to the greatest, rise in a comradely way
to the defense of our dear freedom against the strong paws of the bureaucrat
Communists.

Comrades, young proletarians, and in
particular members of the Communist Youth League, whose eyes the Communist
Party has closed for three years, all as one to the aid of the Provisional
Revolutionary Committee!

"Great... We've succeeded in duping
a whole herd of soldiers to believe that Kronstadt is destroyed, and that
all that's left for them is to occupy the outposts and guard positions."

"They went?"

"They went. Oh, but the traitors
from the Krasnogorsk bakery refused to give them bread for the road...
They say they need it themselves..."

"And what of it?"

"Nothing... I convinced them;
issued them each 2 pounds of unground wheat. They broke, and I sent
Dulkis and Razin with them, in the rear with machine guns."

"Stupendous... When do you think
you'll take Kronstadt?"

"Devil only knows. Our detachments
surrender, but for some reason the Petropavlovsk doesn't want to,
even though I asked them to very strongly. There's just no kind
of mutuality... even out of conscience."

"What's this comrade, talking about
conscience? Look, a pig gets conscience after its been hit with
a nice thick stick, doesn't it?"

"Oh, they're devils, but seriously...
and not with a stick, but with twelve-inchers [cannons]... What's
up with you?"

"Its all right with us. The workers
are striking, the seamen and soldiers are unrestful, the populace is starving...
In any case, the Tsar's train is at the ready, in case we have to make
a quick get away."

With that, the conversation was cut
off.

A TELEPHONE OPERATOR

LEAVING THE PARTY

All those leaving the ranks of the R.C.P.
are directed to turn in their party booklets and identifications to their
electoral troikas. Those leaving the party in the future
and giving declarations are directed to do so right now.

Declarations of departure from the R.C.P.
arrive unceasingly at the editorial offices, but in view of their great
quantity and the insufficiency of space, the editors are unable to publish
them immediately, and will include them as possible in following editions
of the newspaper.

We, Communists of the collective of
the Naval Hospital, ask that you no longer consider us members of the
R.C.P. It has bred bureaucratism and careerism anew, and doesn't
want to listen to the voice of the people, but has sent deceived sons
of the Republic against Kronstadt, saying that bands of White Guards are
bossing us. But we ourselves see who specifically overturned the
commune's power. It was our own comrade sailors, soldiers and workers.

Comrade Communists, it is time to come
to your senses!

Enough of being passive about the current
moment. In a comradely way, work together with our Rev. Com.

Yeast is issued by Rudkevich the yeast
maker by children's cards of series B, for bread coupon No
11.

Citizens who have registered their cards
at store No 18 must
receive meat and fatty products at store No
19.

LEVAKOV, for the President of the Administration of Gorprodkom

NOTICE

The Central Troika of the Bureau
of Trade Unions directs that the 8 hour working day be reinstituted, since
the 6 hour working day was introduced only because of lack of heating
material. The moment we are living through urgently demands that
all forces be strained for the fulfillment of works of military character.
Therefore, the Central Troika of the Bureau of Trade Unions directs
that from March 14th, work is to be carried on from 9 A.M. until 5 P.M.

A. FEDOROV, President of the Revtroika
A. SKVORTSOV, Secretary

--The Revtroika requests that
representatives and secretaries from the uchkoms assemble by 2
P.M. on March 13th at the trade union offices to receive new identifications.
Attendance is mandatory for all.

--The Union Vsemediksantrud [All
Medical and Sanitation Labor] announces that the last day of issue of
onions to members of the union will be the 16th.

--The Housing subdepartment instructs
all uchkoms to give exact information to the subdepartment within
a week on all free apartments and rooms, and also on apartments subject
to consolidation.